Lucas Marincak

PhD Student
lucas.marincak@mail.utoronto.ca

Fields of Study

  • Britain & Ireland
  • Europe (Northern or Western)
  • Manuscript Studies & Textual Cultures
  • Music

Areas of Interest

Medieval music

Major and Minor Fields

Major

  • Musicology

Minor 1

Philology

Working Dissertation

Supervisors

John Haines

Biography

Lucas Marincak is a 2nd-year doctoral candidate with the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, focusing on music in the Middle Ages. He is competent in multiple medieval languages (Latin, Greek, Old English).  He is also an accredited organist (C.R.C.C.O.), composer, and Yamaha music instructor.

Education

BA, Linguistics, University of Ottawa, 2010
MA, Classics & Religious Studies, University of Ottawa, 2016
Colleague of the Royal Canadian College of Organists (CRCCO), 2019

Presentations

‘Microtonalism and the Middle Ages: Exploring the 17-tone hypothesis of George Secor’; 2019 Cologne Toronto Graduate Student Colloquium, Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien,Universität zu Köln (Cologne, Germany)
‘Introducing the Life of Aaron: A Story from the Egyptian Desert, and its NarrativeStructure’; Unravelling Religion 3: Space, Place, and Affect, 2016 Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Queen’s University (Kingston, ON)
“‘Egypt vs. Europe: The Chalcedonian Fault Line’; Religion and History, 2016 Department of Classics and Religion Graduate Student Conference, University of Calgary
“‘Egyptian Travelogue in Coptic Hagiography’, Voyages and Journeys in Antiquity, 2016 Department of Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of Western Ontario (London, ON)

Cohort

  • 2020-2021
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